Managing your citations
Consider using RefWorks to manage your citations and generate your bibliography.
RefWorks is a web-based database program that allows you to gather & organize a catalog of bibliographic citations. A Word plug-in also allows you to automatically format your in-text references and bibliography in many different citation styles.
Dartmouth has a campus-wide subscription for all students, but you'll need to register in order to set up and account. Once registered, look through the online tutorials for an idea of how it works.
Questions? Feel free to contact me or any of the reference librarians.
Online Style Guides - General
Fully citing your sources allows you to:
- give credit to the people whose ideas inspired you
- give your reader a sense for how you did your research
- give your reader enough information to hunt down the documents if they want to read further
- Sources: their use and acknowledgementCreated for Dartmouth undergraduate students. Discusses proper citing practices and plagiarism.
- Purdue Univ.'s Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Research and Citation ResourcesOnline guide to citing sources in APA, Chicago, and MLA styles.
Legal Style Guides - Print & Online
- The BluebookBaker Berry Ref. KF245.Z9 U5 - Latest edition only
Legal citation style manual compiled by the editors of the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal - "How to cite" (from Lexis-Nexis Congressional database)Examples for citing documents in the Lexis-Nexis Congressional database, including bills, committee reports, hearings, and public laws
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (revised 2010)by Peter W. Martin. Part of Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
- Cardiff Index to Legal AbbreviationsPuzzled by a legal abbreviation? Cardiff University (Wales) has put together a helpful tool covering a large number of legal titles worldwide.